Practice Test Questions Set 1
Section I – Reading Comprehension Questions: 45
Time: 45 Minutes Section II – Mathematics Questions: 50
Time: 60 Minutes
Section III – Part 1 - English Grammar (optional) Questions: 50
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Practice Test Questions Set 1
Section I – Reading Comprehension Questions: 45
Time: 45 Minutes Section II – Mathematics Questions: 50
Time: 60 Minutes
Section III – Part 1 - English Grammar (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section III - Part II – Vocabulary Questions: 50
Time: 50 Minutes
Section IV – Part I – Science (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
Section IV – Part II – Anatomy & Physiology (optional) Questions: 50
Time: 50 minutes
The practice test portion presents questions that are representative of the type of question you should expect to find on the HESI.
For the best results, take this Practice Test as if it were the real exam. Set aside time when you will not be disturbed, and a location that is quiet and free of distractions. Read the instructions carefully, read each question carefully, and answer to the best of your ability.
Use the bubble answer sheets provided. When you have completed the Practice Test, check your answer against the Answer Key and read the explanation provided.
NOTE: The Science, Anatomy and Physiology and English sections are optional. Check with your school for exam details.
Answer Sheet – Section 1 - Reading Comprehension
Answer Sheet – Section II - Math
Answer Sheet – Section III Part I - English Grammar
Answer Sheet – Section III Part II – Vocabulary
Answer Sheet – Section IV Part I – Biology and Chemistry
Answer Sheet – Section IV Part I – Anatomy and Physiology
SECTION I - READING COMPREHENSION.
Directions: The following questions are based on a number of reading passages. Each passage is followed by a series of questions. Read each passage carefully, and then answer the questions based on it. You may reread the passage as often as you wish. When you have finished answering the questions based on one passage, go right on to the next passage.
Choose the best answer based on the information given and implied.
Questions 1 – 4 refer to the following passage. Passage 1 - Infectious Disease
An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the presence of pathogenic
agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multi-cellular parasites, and unusual proteins known as prions. Infectious pathologies are also called communicable diseases or transmissible diseases, due to their potential of transmission from one person or species to another by a replicating agent (as opposed to a toxin).
Transmission of an infectious disease can occur in many different ways. Physical contact, liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, and airborne inhalation can all transmit infecting
agents.
Transmissible diseases that occur through contact with an ill person, or objects touched by them, are especially infective, and are sometimes referred to as contagious diseases.
Communicable diseases that require a more specialized route of infection, such as through blood or needle transmission, or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as contagious.
The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted. An infection however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms. 1
1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?
a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from one person to another.
c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one person to another.
d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.
2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?
a. Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases
b. Communicable diseases or terminal diseases
c. Transmissible diseases or preventable diseases
d. Communicative diseases or unstable diseases
3. What does infectivity describe?
a. The inability of an organism to multiply in the host
b. The inability of an organism to reproduce
c. The ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host
d. The ability of an organism to reproduce in the host
4. How do we know an infection is not synonymous with an infectious disease?
a. Because an infectious disease destroys infections with enough time.
b. Because an infection may not cause important clinical symptoms or impair host function.
c. We do not. The two are synonymous.
d. Because an infection is too fatal to be an infectious disease.
Questions 5 – 8 refer to the following passage. Passage 2 - Viruses
A virus (from the Latin virus meaning toxin or poison) is a small infectious agent that can
replicate only inside the living cells of other organisms. Most viruses are too small to be seen directly with a microscope. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and single-celled organisms.
Unlike prions and viroids, viruses consist of two or three parts: all viruses have genes made
from either DNA or RNA, all have a protein coat that protects these genes, and some have an envelope of fat that surrounds them when the
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